{"product_id":"greater-philadelphia-a-new-history-for-the-twenty-first-century-three-volume-set-9781512829358","title":"Greater Philadelphia: A New History for the Twenty-First Century, Three-Volume Set","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInformed by current scholarship and richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps\u003ci\u003e, Greater Philadelphia: A New History for the Twenty-First Century \u003c\/i\u003ebrings to the public an up-to-date, diverse history of Philadelphia across its many dimensions.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVolume 1 adopts \"Greater Philadelphia\" to indicate a regional scope, but not one limited by a fixed geographical boundary. Instead, \"Greater Philadelphia\" refers to the interdependence between the city and its periphery across parts of three states: southeastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and northern Delaware. \u003ci\u003eThe Greater Philadelphia Region\u003c\/i\u003e represents a collection of stories fundamental to the Philadelphia area's history and evolution based on the belief that regions work best when residents, divided in space but linked in multiple ways through social and economic connections, possess shared knowledge about the people and the places that surround them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVolume 2 begins with Philadelphia's role during the American Revolution, as the nation's first capital until 1800, and as home to one of the North's largest free African American communities in the antebellum period. From the Civil War to woman suffrage, from the Lenape people to the Gray Panthers, from Black Power to Occupy Philadelphia, the book chronicles the ongoing dynamics of citizenship and nationhood as they unfolded in the Philadelphia region from the eighteenth through the twenty-first centuries. \u003ci\u003eGreater Philadelphia and the Nation\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how Philadelphia, and its periphery across southeastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and northern Delaware, create, challenge, and sustain the nation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVolume 3 reveals the influence of empires and nations on Greater Philadelphia while also emphasizing the dynamic role the region and its people have played in shaping the modern world. Exploring the immigrants who peopled the Delaware Valley, the faiths they practiced, the environment they shaped, the wars they waged, and the global connections they forged, \u003ci\u003eGreater Philadelphia and the World\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a city and its surroundings that has been continually molded by its links to the Atlantic, the Americas, and the Pacific.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781512829358\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.30h x 9.00w x 2.80d","brand":"Carolyn T. Adams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51894811525301,"sku":"9781512829358","price":106.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_e4631584-bb63-4a1b-a47b-b97e34a536c1.jpg?v=1760491375","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/greater-philadelphia-a-new-history-for-the-twenty-first-century-three-volume-set-9781512829358","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}